Thank you Lykiri. Yes, I had originally, way back when I first started posting here, includes a post with a bunch of links on German legal/ethical considerations post WWII but probably someone found some minor TOS violation and got that one post deleted at the time.
The Germans have a history that makes this a huge, hot button issue, exactly as you suggest. And often placebos are used where you expect a very minor difference to be made by the treatment, for instance where you actually expect maybe just a few months difference. With some cancer drugs they might’ve seen only 3 months difference, overall. So the placebo group really brings that out. But I think people were seeing things with DCVaxL that really caused ethical concerns for the placebo arm. Just my opinion.
And then when you line up many other indicators, I think it just starts to look quite clear to me, again, just my opinion, but rationally, it starts to just add up, point-by-point-by-point.
GLTA! :)